Kinney hannah (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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12mo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 87 pages; foxed throughout with stained and wrinkled boards and a small hole on front cover else very good tight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 87pp. Publisher's brown cloth. A sliver cut from front fly presumably to remove a name, light but pervasive spotting on the rear board, tiny nick at the foot, very good or better. Mrs. Hannah's very interesting narrative account of her unhappy marriage, her husband's death from arsenic served in sage tea, and her subsequent arrest and acquittal. *McDade. The Annals of Murder* 561.…

Stiff Boards. Zustand: Good+ [Textblock Near Fine]. First Edition. First Edition. Stiff Boards. Minor classic murder acquittal. McDade, The Annals of Murder 561. Bookplate shows man in gallows in a deco style, "Borrower Beware - From the Crime Library of John Kobler". Noted issues with the binding notwithstanding, a very clean tight copy. Light shelf/edge wear, roughly bound for private collection, "38" written at head, spine tape to f/rfep, owners bookplate, owners signature at title page, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, Kraft tape spine, purple paper boads, cream paper onlay with full title, place and date. Small 8vo. 87pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First and only edition. 12mo. 87pp. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Heavy wear to the boards and spine, rear hinge cracked and both covers separating at the lower spine and lacking front fly, a good, sound copy. An autobiographical account, written in defense of herself, after the author was acquitted of the murder of her husband but was still the subject of suspicion and exclusion. Provides insight into the limited options and often desperate circumstances of self-sustaining women of the time. *McDade* 561; *American Imprints* 2924.…

Boston, 1841. Sole ed. Mrs. Kinney Defends Herself Kinney, Hannah. A Review of the Principal Events of the Last Ten Years in the Life of Hannah Kinney: Together with Some Comments Upon the Late Trial. Written by Herself. Boston: J.N. Bradley & Co., 1841. 87 pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary cloth, faint label residue to front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, boards partially detached but secure, later library stamps to edges of text block and front pastedown. Light browning to endleaves, light toning to text. $200. * Only edition. When Mr. Kinney died of arsenic poisoning, Mrs. Kinney's suspicious behavior brought her to trial. She was acquitted. According to McDade, there is a related work entitled A Brief Notice of the Life of Mrs. Hannah Kinney for Twenty Years by Ward Witham, her first husband, who reports that she never tried to poison him. McDade, The Annals of Murder 561. Boston, 1841. Sole ed. (illustrator).…